[Soekris] NET5501 Boot Problem
Wim Vandeputte mailinglist only
bunbun at kd85.com
Thu Jul 17 18:59:13 UTC 2008
hey,
This is actually the same error you see with FreeBSD and OpenBSD when
the BIOS has problems recognising the CF. You can spot it when there is
a 20 second delay when detecting the CF and when the bootloader tries
any disk activity
comBIOS ver. 1.33c 20080626 Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Soekris Engineering.
net5501
0256 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 434 Mhz
Pri Mas SILICONSYSTEMS INC 1GB LBA Xlt 1015-32-63 1023 Mbyte
Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int
-------------------------------------------------------------------
0:01:2 1022 2082 10100000 0006 0220 08 00 00 A0000000 00000000 10
0:06:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E101 A0004000 11
0:07:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E201 A0004100 05
0:08:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E301 A0004200 09
0:09:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E401 A0004300 12
0:20:0 1022 2090 06010003 0009 02A0 08 40 80 00006001 00006101
0:20:2 1022 209A 01018001 0005 02A0 08 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:21:0 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 80 A0005000 00000000 15
0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0006000 00000000 15
1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
Using drive 0, partition 3.
Loading...
probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 255M a20=on]
disk: hd0+*
>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01
open(hd0a:/etc/boot.conf): Unknown error: code 102
boot> reboot
Rebooting...
exit
POST: 012345689bcefghips1234ajklnopqr,,,tvwxy
comBIOS ver. 1.33c 20080626 Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Soekris Engineering.
net5501
0256 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 434 Mhz
Pri Mas SILICONSYSTEMS INC 1GB LBA Xlt 1015-32-63 1023 Mbyte
Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int
-------------------------------------------------------------------
0:01:2 1022 2082 10100000 0006 0220 08 00 00 A0000000 00000000 10
0:06:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E101 A0004000 11
0:07:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E201 A0004100 05
0:08:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E301 A0004200 09
0:09:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E401 A0004300 12
0:20:0 1022 2090 06010003 0009 02A0 08 40 80 00006001 00006101
0:20:2 1022 209A 01018001 0005 02A0 08 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:21:0 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 80 A0005000 00000000 15
0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0006000 00000000 15
1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
Using drive 0, partition 3.
Loading...
probing: pc0 com0 com1 pci mem[639K 255M a20=on]
disk: hd0+
>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01
-
com0: 19200 baud
switching console to com0
>> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01
boot>
booting hd0a:/bsd: 5913424+1004644 [52+306864+287943]=0x72a4d4
entry point at 0x200120ªÿ
[ using 595232 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:44:39AM -0700, Chris Babcock wrote:
> Eternity wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a problem with a whole bunch of NET5501:s. I have read some posts
> > with similar problems, but not exactly this, I think, so I post my
> > problem:
> >
> > On a Cold boot my CF Card is detected:
> >
> > Pri Mas CF CARD 1GB LBA Xlt 983-32-63 990 Mbyte
> >
> > Then at boot:
> >
> > GRUB Loading stage1.5.
> >
> > GRUB loading, please wait...
> > Error 25
> >
> > ---
> >
> > If I press ctrl-p, and at once in combios makes a "reboot" everything
> > works OK, and GRUB can load correctly.
> >
> > I have used lots of net5501 boxes with this distribution (same image file
> > I write to the CF card) without any trouble at all. I have tried upgrading
> > BIOS to 1.33c version, but no change.
> >
> > Any ideas? Could it be the flash card? Or some defect on these batch of
> > boards?
> >
> It could be the flash or a defective board. If you have a known working
> unit, try swapping the flash into it and see if you get the same
> error. If another known working unit does the same thing, you probably
> have one of the 5501 boards with issues (RMA to resolve). If the error
> persists, it's probably bad CF. One other possibility... Did you image
> the CF or do the install from a different system? If you did, there are
> often disk geometry issues in the install, which can and often do cause
> issues, esp with boot loaders. The only safe way to make sure the
> geometry is correct on a load is to load on the exact same type of
> system (so in this case, another 5501).
>
> Grub manual error code link:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Stage1_002e5-errors
>
> According to the grub manual Error 25 in stage 1.5 is...
>
> 25 : Disk read error
> This error is returned if there is a disk read error when trying to
> probe or read data from a particular disk.
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